trickish
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Although a trifle too trickish and studied to rank as Pinter's best work, it is quite good enough to dominate the Broadway scene, and probably will not be surpassed in dramatic quality this season.
From Time Magazine Archive
The plantation was productive, the old fellow had gathered many a fine crop, and for his failure to pay rent there could be no excuse, except the apologies devised by his own trickish invention.
From An Arkansas Planter by Opie Percival Read
I am almost ashamed to insert this worthless and infamously trickish book.
From Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches by Anonymous
Jugg′ler, one who performs tricks by sleight-of-hand: a trickish fellow; Jugg′lery, art or tricks of a juggler: legerdemain: trickery.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
It is not to be supposed that either will be the voluntary bubble of such trickish policy.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various
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